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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Do OS's slow down with age?  (was: DDJ article / UNIX vs BS/2)
Summary: No kiddin'?
Message-ID: <650@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 89 21:50:11 GMT
References: <209@imspw6.UUCP> <12872@steinmetz.ge.com> <370@siswat.UUCP> <1472@cps3xx.UUCP> <12938@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <12938@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
   [.... much ado about OS speed ....]
>  Note that DEC is not using VMS on their new RISC machine. 

   No kidding?  Since it uses a MIPS CPU+FPU and since VMS is (mostly)
   written in VAX-11 assembler and BLISS-32 ... isn't that obvious?

   John Hascall
 
>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>  {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen